Performances -- Part I

Thursday night was the First Grade Autumn & Thanksgiving performance at Sophie's school. The day was a bit hectic as Sophie informed me just a few days before that she was supposed to wear fall colors which was not really a problem until she insisted that they were supposed to be solid. We have several fall colored tops, but NONE were solid! Have I ever mentioned here before that Sophie is a RULE FOLLOWER! Most of the time this is a very positive thing, but sometimes...... Anyway, even though I knew many of the children would not be in solid colors, Jason, Allison and I headed out that morning in search of some solid colored tops. This was not as easy of a task as I thought it would be, but we eventually found these turtlenecks. Jason chose a red one and a yellow one saying "they are both fall colors and Sophie would look pretty in both." Sophie picked yellow.

We then headed home for lunch and naps. After nap, poor little Allison woke up with a fever which would put a bit of a damper on the evening....should we just draw straws to see who stays home? (Thanks, Nana...we'll break out the video over Thanksgiving!)

Then, we lost John! Ok, we didn't actually LOSE him. I knew he was at work. I just couldn't get in touch with him. He was supposed to be bringing pizza home for dinner, but as time was running out and the pizza had already been ordered online for pickup, I loaded up the kids and we went to get the pizza ourselves. Daddy finally made it out of work and met us at school. He got to eat his pizza in the parking lot.
Sophie seemed nervous up on stage until she found us in the audience. Then she relaxed and had fun....except when you could see that she was getting irritated at the kids around her who were doing things that they were not supposed to be doing like talking, turning around, not watching the music teacher .... I did mention that she is a rule follower, right???